"If you’ve got a business
— you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen...There was a great
teacher somewhere in your life....government built the roads and bridges..." and
so on.
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But if you're not responsible
for your success, if it was do to 'a great teacher somewhere' or some government
something-or-other, then who's responsible for the kids who didn't turn out so
well? If you robbed a business instead of starting one, who should go to jail?
(Anyone remember the name of little Bernie Madoff's first grade teacher? Where
she lives? What size handcuffs she wears?)
If you're ambitious enough and
hard working enough (and, yeah, smart enough) to follow your passion and get it
right, then of course you're the one who made it happen, who built it. Don't
listen to anyone who tries to take it away from you.
The ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel was painted by Michaelangelo, not the carpenters who built the
scaffolding he was lying on.
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